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No 280,903. Patented July 10. 1883.

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OINDER GAR.

Patented July 10, 1883 EEO/677250.73; J0 r0 77 6 1 BqyaT',

' w/dme/sxei' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JEROME L. BUYER, or COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ClNDE-R-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 280,903, dated July 10, 1883. Application filed April 9, 1583. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JEROME L. Bornn, a

\ citizen of the United States, and aresident of My invention relates to improvements in.

the handling of cinder from blast-furnaces by means of special appliances and cars therefor.

My object is to reduce the cost of handling ci'nder, to dispose of the same more rapidly than under the present system, and to enable furnace-men to deposit upon the same area of dumping-ground at least four times the quantity of cinder that the present system of dumpage would place upon the same.

The above objects I attain by the use of the cars and apparatus shown in theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which corresponding letters designate corresponding parts.

Figure 1, Sheet 1, is a side elevation of my cinder-tipping apparatus in position to operate the car. Fig. 2, Sheet 2, is a sectional ele vation of the workingpart of the apparatus,

showing the power applied and the car ready to dump. Fig. 3, Sheet 3, represents a side elevation of the car detached from the lifting or dumping power. Fig. 4, Sheet 3, is a plan of the same; Fig. 5, Sheet 3, a sectional view of the car, in all-of which A represents the front or smoke-box end of a locomotive; A,side frame; A bumper of same; B, anopen-end cylinder; B, pipe leading from the cylinder up within the locomov tivecab, where it is provided with a three-way cock B exhausting holes 0, piston G, piston-rod; G hook (swivel) or coupler on end of piston-rod; D, derrick-car; D, bumpers upon same; D floor of same E, base-plate of derrick; F, stationarypost secured to plate E and turned upon its exterior; G, exterior movablepost or pipe, having a bearing-flange,,G', at the base, anda bolting-flange, L, at thetop; H, a collar in two parts, bolted by flange at the base of the post, and provided with a hub, I, for the jib. J is the jib, formed of pipe threaded at the ends, at the lower end fitted .hinge, as shown in Fig. 2,

M, and is provided with hubs K for the tension-rods and sheave-pin K The cap L has standards L and pins L for the sheave M. It also has a central hole for the chain or wire rope to pass through, and hubs L for the tension-rods, and is bolted to the flange L of the movable post G. M represents the sheaves, located as shown. X represents the wire rope or chain for hoisting purposes; N, the ring of the sling, and N N the car-body sling. 0 represents the sides, and O the ends, of the receptacle or box. P 1? are cars cast upon the end 0 of the receptacle. Q Q are the trunnions or lifting-pins. R represents the center plate of the bottom of the receptacle or floor of the car; R, an extension and thickening of the ends of thccenter plates to form bumpers cruin-pin, B", is passed and supported in the S represents the side sides of the car-body. plates of the bottom. S are cars cast upon both the center and side plates of the bottom. Matching with the ears P P of the end 0, a pin, S", passing through the same, forms a Sheet 2. T represents the cinder-car-body truck; T, caps over the axle-bearing boxes, T, ends; T center crossbar. The floor S R S in its normal state rests upon T and U represents a wroughtv iron bar connecting the jaws of the axle-box pedestals. Y represents the tension-rods, there being two of them. WV are temporary stays used when the derrick is not required to swing around. X represents a manual-p ower attachment,which may be applied when horses are used to remove the cinder.

The usual course at the furnace is to fill the cinder-cars and let them stand until the cinder is sufficient] y cooled off to permit barring 0d of the car. The cars are then drawn out to the dump, either by horse or locomotive power, and placed under a fixed crane, when the box or top is lifted off of the hardened cinder. The car is then shoved to the end of the dump, where laborers with bars pry the cinder cake off of the car. This requires time, and is fraught with danger to the oper- 2 g 2 same 'idly fillup the dumping-ground, extending.

With my improvement the cars are filled as usual, but as soon as full are attached to the locomotive and hauled to the dumping-ground, where the car is backed out to the end of the dump. The chain or rope N is connected with the piston-rod hook, (or swivel,) as shown in Fig. 1, Sheet 1. cylinder 13 by the engineer, which drives the piston 0 toward the rear, and thus, through the connection of the chain or rope N with ring N, links N, and trunnions Q of the box 0 O, hinges P S, and fulcrum R puts thebox 0 O and floor R S in the position shown in Fig. 2, Sheet 2, when the cinder slides onto the dump in a liquid or semi-liquid state, which fills all the interstices left by the previous dumpage; and the subsequent dumps being of similar character the result is such close packing that ground now covered by one years operation of the furnace will, by the use of my improvement, last for four years service. 7

Independent of time and space saved by my mode of dumping the cinder in a fluid state, there is a saving of seventy-five per cent. in the labor and about fifty per cent. in the number of cars necessary to handle the production of 'cinder from two or more furnaces.

I have referred more particularly to the use of a locomotive for the handling of the cindercars, as it is more reliable and rapid in its movement, and will deliver the cinder in a more fluid state upon the dump, and the readiness of the steam to operate the hoisting-piston makes the locomotive the most desirable for the. purpose; but where horses are employed there is still great economy in the use of myapparatus and cars. A manual-power crab would then be placed upon the post of the derrick, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, and the car dumped in that way; or a portable boiler may be placed conveniently upon the dump and an open-end cylinder similar to B suspended from the derrick-car floor. A sim ple connection by a flexible pipe between the boiler and cylinder would then furnish the hoisting force. a

. The application of the locomotive-power hoist and portable derrick will be found of expansion and contraction of their severalparts. The floors were and are generally composed of a single plate, 'or of an open frame Steam is turned into the filled out. with plates, in either. ,case strength-H ened by heavy wrought -.iron bars riveted thereon. These bars, or the construction of the 001, also addsto the time requisite to bar the cinder-cake off of. the car, owing to the roughness of the floorloccasioned by their use. The sides of the boxes are also secured by wroughtiron bars, but, notwithstanding the above pre cautions, are continually giving out and must be replaced. a

In my construction of car, I form the bottom or floor of detached longitudinal plates, preferably of one central piece, R, and two side pieces, S, the central piece somewhat longer than the side pieces, and provided with bumpers R and ear R as a fulcrum acting'on pin R and a hinge, S, at the rear. The side pieces also have the fulcrum-ear R and the hinge S at the rear, a pintle, S being common to all the earsof the hinge. The box is in form similar to those atpresent in common use,- the. ends being provided with trunnions Q, whereby to raise the box, and the rear end provided with hinge-ears P P corresponding with the hinge-ears S of the floor, and moving upon the pintle S common to the same. The sides and ends I make of a taper section,

about oneand one-half inch at the base where they rest upon the floor, and about one inch thick at the top edge. I find that this construction enables me to dispense with all wrought-iron strengthening-bars, which sinr plifies the car, gives it increased life, and, when broken, can go at once into the furnace as scrap, without the labor involved in the separation of thewrought from the cast iron, as under the usual construction. J

I am aware that I am not the first to apply a movable derrick or hoist in a train in connection with cars coupled thereto, as it is a comm on expedient in railroad-wrecking practice to so apply them; butI believe myself to be the first to use a derrick or hoist of the construction shown, in combination with a car dumped by raising the. top box, in the manner shown and described. Ido not, therefore,

broadly claim a mounted derrick or hoistsimply the combination of the one described with my special cinder-car.

Having shown the construction, advantages, and application of my improvement, I desire to secure by Letters Patent the following claims thereon: a

1. In a cinder-oar for the dumpage of fluid cinder, the floor constructed of two ormore parts, having a central thickened end projection as bumpers thereon, provided with fulcrum ears R beneath theface, oscillating upon a pin, R and hinge-ears S at the rear end of the car on the face of the floor, in combination with the box 0 O, of the-form shown, and provided with hinge-earsP 1?, mating the .hinge S, a pintle, S, common thereto, and trunnions Q, whereby the same is adapted to be raised at an angle with the track, the box clear of the car contents,'and the same at liberty to slide to both, the floor as described, fnlorumed on is the truck T byears R and pin R the whole arranged to operate as and for the purpose set forth.

JEROME L. BOYER.

Witnesses:

R. D. BURnoUGHs,

A. R. BOYD. 

